cantata

Noun

cantata

1. (music) A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.

7 letters in word "cantata": A A A C N T T.

No anagrams for cantata found in this word list.

Words found within cantata:

aa act acta an ana anatta ant anta at att can cant cat na nat ta tacan tact tan tana tat

• Definitions:
• Baroque sacred or secular choral composition containing solos, duets, and choruses, with orchestral or keyboard accompaniment.
• Generally for chorus and soloists, a musical form based primarily on narrative text.
• Choral or solo vocal form developed in the Baroque period based on secular or religious text, generally with several movements and instrumental ensemble accompaniment.
• A work for solo singers, chorus and instrumentalists based on a lyric or dramatic poetic narrative. It generally consists of several movements including recitatives, arias and ensemble pieces.
• Term applied to a 17th and 18th century multi-movement non-theatrical and non-liturgical vocal genre; subsequently used to describe large-scale vocal works in the same spirit, generally for soloists, chorus and orchestra.
• A work consisting of several arias, either secular or sacred in nature, which features one or more solo voices with instrumental accompaniment. An acknowledged master of the cantata form was Bach.
• a musical form, generally for chorus and soloists, based on a primarily narrative text; the most famous cantatas are those written by Bach, all of which take scriptural texts as their starting points--some are even for solo voice and instrument.
• A Baroque genre for voice(s) and instruments on a sacred or secular poem, including recitatives, arias, and sometimes choruses.
• a vocal work consisting of a succession of recitatives, choruses, arias and duets
• (Ital., "sung work") Genre of vocal composition originating in the Baroque, sacred or secular, for soloist or chorus.
• Musical genre for voices and instruments.
• Properly, a piece that is sung, as opposed to 'sonata,' a piece that is played. In the early 17th Century, the word was used to refer to extended pieces of secular music, for one or two voices with accompaniment.
• a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
• A cantata (Italian, 'sung') is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment and generally containing more than one movement.

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